Episode 721: Objection D’Art

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David is an art history professor. For the last year, he has been researching an early 20th-century American impressionist named Agnes Millen Richmond. He’s started buying her paintings… and they’re expensive. Susan says they have too many already! She says her husband is obsessed! Who’s right? Who’s wrong?

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Evidence From OBJECTION D'ART

A portrait of a woman with girls in different stages of life behind her in the background

"Fifteen" by Agnes Millen Richmond, David's first Richmond purchase

An oil landscape painting showing rocks in the foreground and a lake in the background

"Ten Pound Island, Gloucester" by Richmond. This was David's most recent, and most expensive oil painting purchase.

A wooden sculpture of a girl with her hands holding her face, as she looks down

"Girl Deep in Thought" by Genevieve Karr Hamlin. Susan says, "Now, I identify with this poor girl. She does not look deep in thought to me. She seems deep in distress."

an oil painting showing houses around a lake, with a rock formation in the foreground

A Richmond painting that David says needs to go in a museum

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Episode 721: Objection D’Art

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